jeffrallen

Whatever happened to Carl Steadman? That guy was dope.

https://www.internethistorypodcast.com/2016/02/founders-of-s...

If your neighbor is a defector (a game theoretically optimal name for "an asshole") there's nothing to do but turn the other way and talk to your neighbor over the other fence.

Social exclusion, like putting a kid in timeout.

Maybe they will get the hint, maybe not.

> How can you compete

Convince your neighbors that it's better to buy products they know from producers they trust from neighbors they live near.

It's small town and old school, but I don't see any other solution.

Personal exe.dev subscription.

I remember waiting for IR file sharing. It was SLOW.

I disagree: ops is related to dev, because good dev work makes ops easy. But they are different: being good at ops requires a mindset of curiosity, risk management, and being willing to chase things to to last details.

Devops definitely still exists, I've seen it. It is when people are responsible, even in the middle of the night, for the systems they fucked up engineering in the day.

TLAs and eTLAs.

The same understanding most of the devs lack because they aren't.... curious. And thus, why they aren't SREs.

'Tis the season.

My family just switched to sunrise simulation alarm clock lights, and I'll start squirting vitamin D in my coffee milk soon.

In Europe, winter darkness is a bitch. Don't take chances with your health.

Must be convenient to get all your security bugs from one vendor...

Given this keeps happening in Spain, maybe we'll need to call this "Normalization of normalization of deviance".

Humans never learn.

Yes, I don't even work on especially security sensitive stuff, and I've twice in the last month had a task interrupted by GPT Sol for "security reasons".

But my agent makes it super easy to switch to DeekSeek and just carry on.

It probably takes nine months to get one ready to pop off...

Smoking and AI maximalists are uncool.

Thanks Wayne.

It's like a pelican on a bicycle, but with social commentary.

Yes. The dashboard that grabs some data out of other systems is vibe coded. The design was mine, to make it safe to let the AI go wild on the rest. Places where authentication, durable state, un-reversible actions are concerned: the AI can sketch it, then you gotta own it, with perhaps help from the AI to improve tests or refactor.

...maybe stop doing crimes?

Service providers are still responsible to police what happens on their network. KYC already makes it very difficult to get service completely anonymously with only crypto changing "hands".

Well, the COVID story seems to indicate we don't actually take lab leaks seriously, so... yeah.

Too big to behave.

This made me smile and made my wife reply with "kissie eyes", which I'm assured, is better than "hugging face".

More like in a world of round things that can bear loads, they decided to... (checks notes) reinvent the wheel?

I took my Swiss wife to the Tillamook factory in Oregon and she was laughing at how industrial it is. Later she took me to a Swiss mountain cheese maker, accessible only by hiking, making cheese over a wood-fired kettle.

I use Gemini all day at work via the chat interface. It's rock solid. I find it hard to understand which model it's using though. Am I already using Argon, or does it switch models according to the subject?

I like this thinking. But also: it's clear this is a monoculture wood crop, not a "forest".

So in fact, this IS brownfield development: changing one industrial land use (forest products) into another one.

Doesn't mean they can't do the paperwork correctly tho.

Offering redundancy across zones is one thing (and I'm pleased to offer it to my customers). Getting them to use it is quite another thing.

Even if it was "only" 2x or 3x the expense to have a completely multizone setup, the ongoing operational burden is too high to justify over the 2, 10, or 100 year timeframe when no outages happen which could have been avoided.

Companies dependent on a single Amazon zone just give up and wait during a zone outage, blame it on Amazon, then get back to making money the next day.

ATT was paid by the government to do that. I doubt the commercial market can support those costs.

Also, it is willing to do legitimate work I need done which other models flag as dangerous and refuse to do. (Software testing of a DHCP server to survive bad inputs.)